Extension-table.



No. 890,540. EATENTEE JUNE 9, 1908.

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PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908, A. P. TAGLIAFERRI.

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ANTONIO P. TAGLIAFERRI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EXTENSION-TAB LE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application led September 26, 1907. Serial No. 394,650.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO P. TAGLIA- FERRI, a subject of the King of Italy, and a resident of the city of New York, boroughof Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Extension-Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in tables of circular form, which may be extended without substantially varying their shape, and which provides for the convenient storage of the table leaves when the same are not in use.

The invention further resides in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, which similar' characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a table embodying my invention, the said section being taken substantially on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the table just above the pedestal, looking upwardly and showing the leaves and attached stop in place Fig. 3 is a plan of the table with the top extended; and Fig. 4 is a plan of the table with the top removed.

The rail 5 is jreferably made of a single piece 'of materia bent in circular form, as shown.

Rigidly attached to the rail 5 are cross-bars 6, arranged in pairs, each cross-bar being parallel to the cross-bar to which it is` oppositely arranged, and dividing the space between the rail into two intersecting compartments. One set of said cross-bars 6 is continuous in length, as shown in Fig. 2, and all of said bars are of such height as to be substantially flush with the top of the rail 5.

The top of the table, when contracted, is divided into sectors 7, having their meeting edges keyedtogether by pins or projections 8 and arranged arallel to the cross-bars 6. On the under ace of each sector 7, parallel guide-bars 9 are attached, which are diagonally arranged to the cross-bars and are received in grooves formed in both the top of the rail 5 and the said bars. The guide-bars 9 are substantially L-sha ed in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 1, whic prevents vertical displacement of the sectors when they are assembled.

One pair of the cross-bars 6, as will be observed from Fig. 2, runs continuously across the table at the bottom, but said bars are cut out at the top thereof as indicated at 10 in Fig. 1, leavingthe width of the remaining portions of this pair of bars substantially equal to a double thickness of the top of the table.

The table is supported on a suitable pedestal 11, the head 12 of which is secured over the intersection of the cross-bars, and is provided with a recess 13 formed in its top face. This recess receives a stop or projection 14 secured to the under face of a table leaf 15, which is made in two sections hinged together at 16, and adapted to be seated on the head 12 in the continuous compartment formed by the cross-bars when the sections are folded upon each other. W'hen the leaf 15 is thus stored it is prevented from sliding longitudinally in the compartment by the stop 14, and the top thereof is substantially flush with the top edges of the confining bars at the intersection of the crosscompartments. In the cross-compartments formed by the other pair of bars 6, are placed on the top of the leaf 15, two short leaves 17, held from sliding movement by stops 17 a, each leaf being equal in length to one of the sectors. The table top when extended, as shown in dotted outline in Fig. 2, will, in addition to the sectors, be made up of the leaf 15 which will run continuously across the top, and the two short leaves 17, which will terminate at the ends of their respective cong tiguous sectors and in abutting relation to the opposite edges of the leaf 15.

For locking the sectors in both the extended and contracted forms of the table top, I attach to the inside of the rail, latches 1S, each preferably in the nature of an ordinary sash-lock, one of which is placed directly under each sector and is adapted to engage grooves 19 formed therein. The complete withdrawal of the sectors is prevented by attaching to the under face of each, a stop 2O as clearly shown in Fig. 2. These stops pass over the top of the latches and contact with the rail 5 when the sectors. are drawn to the limit of their outward movement. It is thus seen that I have produced an extension table of circular'form which when extended will not be substantially varied in shape, and

i A table comprising a circular rail, crossbars arranged in pairs secured to said rail forming intersecting cross-compartments, av top for the table slidably connected to the cross-hars and rail and divided into sectors, a pedestal attached .to the cross-bars at their intersections for supporting the table, leaves adapted to be stored in said compartments and to be placed over them between the meeting edges of the sectors for extending the table, a stop carried by one of said leaves adapted to encrage a recess formed in the head of the pedestal and prevent longitudinal movementof the leall in the compartt ment, and stops for limiting the movement of the remaining leaves when stored in the other compartments.

In testimony whereof` I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTONIO P. TAGLIAFERRI.

Iitnesses:

GrLDo J. SOLARI, EUsrBro MARTINA. 

